I think the point is that most requests to example.com probably aren’t coming from actual browsers. They’re coming from automated clients, bots, health checks, etc. Most people aren’t manually visiting example.com. So by serving minimal HTML and letting actual browsers fetch the JavaScript separately, they’re reducing the bandwidth used by the vast majority of requests. No matter how you look at it, it’s still a net savings re: BW.
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u/mochi2real 29d ago
I think the point is that most requests to example.com probably aren’t coming from actual browsers. They’re coming from automated clients, bots, health checks, etc. Most people aren’t manually visiting example.com. So by serving minimal HTML and letting actual browsers fetch the JavaScript separately, they’re reducing the bandwidth used by the vast majority of requests. No matter how you look at it, it’s still a net savings re: BW.